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entitled The Films of El Santo is El Santo. Numerous years after his death, El Santo is still an icon of Mexican popular culture. Even though the comic book that originally facilitated him to gain an enormous celebrity status is long gone, his films are still available on tape, DVD, and on the internet. El Santo was born Rodolfo Guzman Huerta in 1917. Huerta would go on to be the most celebrated wrestler in lucha libre. Santo is featured in 54 films, and in these B grade movies, Santo would be called upon

El cuerpo como memoria en Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos Febres Cuando en una entrevista para la revista española Letral le preguntaron a Mayra Santos Febres con relación a su última novela Fe en disfraz: “¿No crees que, tal vez, habría que dejar atrás junto a la identidad, ese enfoque aplicado especialmente a la mujer negra?” (A Mayra Santo-Febres 154), la escritora le respondió: “No puede dejarse atrás ese tema porque no se ha escrito casi nada sobre él en español”. Si bien es cierto que es

education, she opened the doors of higher education to the women of her period and then on. Salomé Ureña de Henríquez was born 21 October 1850 in the city of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Nicolás Ureña de Mendoza and Gregoria Díaz y León. Her father was a well-educated man: a lawyer, a teacher, a poet, and as a journalist founded newspaper El Progreso in 1853. She was born in a very turbulent time, surrounded by political uncertainty. Salomé Ureña was born

Ventura, summarily dropped the overt propaganda, but they emerged from the Trujillo era with a heightened awareness of the power of their craft. Johnny Ventura would later become an active political figure, and in 1998, win the mayoral election of Santo Domingo, the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic. In an interview in the summer of 2000, Johnny Ventura asserts, "I believe getting involved—not just the artists—in the search for solutions to the great wrongs and problems

Wei Wen Professor Rowe English 101 May 9, 2011 Fuku—a curse of bad consequences “Fuku—generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World,” written in the Pulitzer Prize winning novel—The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which is written by Junot Diaz (Diaz 1). If you make a bad choice, you will receive “fuku,” says Junot Diaz in the interview on Q TV (YouTube). In the interview with Slate Magazine, Diaz says that the novel “is all about

his family members’s lives ended. It is believed to be the fuku, it is believed to be a curse past by El Trujillo. The fuku affected

completely demolished by Trujillo and company. Both these stories show the power Trujillo had on his people. Trujillo wanted to make his presence felt everywhere in the Dominican Republic. This is shown when Diaz states “Homeboy dominated Santo Domingo like it was his very own private Mordor; not only did he lock the country away from the rest of the world, isolate it behind the Platano Curtain, he acted like it was his very own plantation, acted like he owned everything and everyone,

in New Jersey. It is not until a much needed trip to the Dominican Republic where his attitude starts to change. Oscar continued to teach at his old high school in New Jersey, sad and depressed everyday for three years, that is until his trip to Santo Domingo. Oscar forgot how much he had missed spending time in the Dominican. His mind was no longer filled to the brim with disappointment, stress and the feeling of being depressed. For the first time in a while, he saw beautiful

Writers are people of great influence; they write for many reasons including to inform, express an emotion, or even to persuade. With skill in rhetoric, writers may have the power to convince readers to succumb to their beliefs. In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz displays this great influential power of a writer and compares it with the ideas of dictatorship. Díaz uses two types of dictators in the book: a Dominican dictator named Rafael Trujillo and the narrator of the

El Greco is a well-known Greek artist whose work during the Spanish Renaissance made him famous. Born 1541 in Crete, El Greco eventually made his way to Venice where he found himself under the instruction of Titian (El Greco). After moving to Toledo, Spain at age thirty-five, he continued his career as an artist until his death. Some of his works include The Holy Trinity, The Assumption of the Virgin, and The Burial of Count of Orgaz (El Greco - The Complete Works). All of these paintings show his